World-class Universities - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

Lemann Foundation have proposed to improve the quality of Brazilian education at all levels," said Lemann Foundation CEO Denis Mizne. "This gift is in harmony with that strategy, which aims to develop programs in a wide variety of subjects to enable Brazilian students... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

president. An active HBS faculty member from 1970 to 1989, Chandler not only conducted some of his most important research at the School, but he also nurtured a group of younger world-class business historians. With them, he created an... View Details

22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

gathering at the IBM Center to explore the Summit’s theme, Geopolitical Disruption: Opportunities and Hedges, with world-class CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and HBS faculty. According to club board member and the summit’s co-organizer,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

day. At that point, Sityodtong learned he had been accepted to HBS. A 1994 econ grad from Tufts University with experience working as an equity associate at Fidelity, he fit the profile of an MBA student. But making the decision to come... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2016
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Going Forward

to improve the perception of HBS and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to build the case for flexible funding that would support innovation at the School. On all these dimensions we have... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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New Leadership for External Relations

James C. Schroeder has recently been appointed the new executive director of External Relations at HBS. Schroeder, who comes to the School from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will head HBS alumni relations and development... View Details

01 Jul 2018
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to increase flexible funding to support innovation at the School. We made real progress on all these dimensions, and we are extremely proud of what... View Details

04 Apr 2022
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Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations

to help mayors of cities in Israel improve public services for residents and strengthen ties with the global community. Modeled on the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which has supported 200 mayors across the United States since 2016, the new center at... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered

country and abroad. His premature death has robbed us of a world-class scholar and a valued friend and colleague." Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, who... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs

today is a growing shortage of outstanding faculty,” said Dean Kim B. Clark. “This generous gift will enhance the experience of current students and allow us to strengthen the School’s doctoral programs in the future. It ensures that we will continue to produce View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2010
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Faculty Books

Professor Emeritus Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to hire faculty, build a curriculum, attract and retain students, achieve top-quality... View Details

Keywords: business proposals; financial regulation

01 Sep 2015
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Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

and has seen the power of collaboration in his work to cure cystic fibrosis. "Today it would be unfathomable to think that you could go to Harvard and not take courses in other schools." Realizing the vision of One Harvard will enable the View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future

are entrepreneurs. The ability of the School to leverage its vast resources across the University will create both a world-class opportunity and a distinct competitive advantage in the field of... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Skeete Tatum; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Jul 2018
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Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

together,” she remembers. That interest led her to study finance and accounting at the University of Pennsylvania. After college, she joined Morgan Stanley as an analyst. “I found investment banking to be exciting and fast-paced,” says... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Devtosh Khare

Khare. Indeed, he came to business only after he added to his undergraduate engineering major at the University of Pennsylvania by enrolling in the Wharton School's five-year, dual-degree program in management and technology. "I saw... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell

18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

advertising waste and noise." Howe likes to take a big-picture view of business problems, probably because of his training in economics. That process began early — at the family dinner table, he recalls — when his father, a hospital administrator with an MBA from the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Sep 2016
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Advancing the Vision for HBS

Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program Enabling a broader diversity of students to enroll in the MBA Program “Fellowships help ensure that income doesn’t determine whether you can receive a world-class business... View Details

22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

intelligence to help or hinder human progress; University of Montreal Daniel Jutras who elaborated on the implications of these new stakes on younger generations; and Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, who described the concrete steps required... View Details